Amosta Bryan seemed to have finished what he could say, and he picked up the teacup again, leaned back in his chair and sipped, quietly waiting for Gelson Barna to take over the business.

What deserved the famous Amosta Bryan to come to Paris to negotiate the deal?

Mr. Barna lowered his gaze and stared at the plate of delicate pastries in front of him, slightly silent.

It's impossible not to be curious, but Barna can see that Amosta Blaine doesn't want to reveal it.

"Mr. Blaine—"

After a long silence, the old goblin finally raised his head,

"We have no reason to refuse this business, all the proceeds from the Triwizard Tournament live broadcast will be distributed according to the plan you propose, and about your personal remuneration. If I'm not mistaken, we have a workshop in Diagon Alley that produces broomstick care kits, and from tomorrow onwards, the workshop will do its best to fulfill the orders that have already been placed, and refuse new business, and the machinery, hired labor, plant, and land will be delivered to you as quickly as possible, but--"

Amosta furrowed a frown, waiting for Barna to offer his terms.

"I don't know exactly what you'd like this alchemy workshop to be used for, but I think it's supposed to be used to produce another great creation from you, right?"

"You want to be involved in the future business of this workshop?"

A smile welled up in the corners of Amosta's mouth,

"Even if you don't know anything about this business, or even if it's profitable or loss-making, that's not in line with the goblins' usual risk-focused style, Mr. Barna?"

"You are our greatest safeguard, Mr. Bryan—"

The old goblin laughed in an old voice,

"You need a workshop, but you can't do anything like that, you also need a sum of money, you need a complete supply chain of raw materials, you need to promote the channels of the product, these things will also cost you a lot of energy, and these are exactly what we are good at, let us join the future operation of the workshop, can save you a lot of trouble, and we require."

A strange light crossed the old goblin's eyes,

"We don't interfere in the decision-making of the workshop's operation, we only need 10% of the workshop's annual profits."

The so-called old man is fine, it is better to be.

Gelson Barna, the old goblin, even risked a large loss of gold Galleons in order to establish a relationship of interest with himself.

"For specific matters, I will arrange for my friend, Remus Lupin, to contact you, he is a werewolf, I hope you can get along well before."

Before the old elf could rejoice, he was drawn to his mind by another message in Bryan's words.

Amosta Blaine, who was only an unknown young wizard two years ago, has spread his fame to several continents in a very short period of time, especially in the European wizarding world, as if he was already on an equal footing with Albus Dumbledore, and because of his huge age advantage and the strength he showed on the night of the Quidditch final, many people have even decided that the next half century or even a long time, the European wizarding world will be the era of Amosta Blaine.

And such a wizard actually claims to have a werewolf friend!

Werewolves may still be accepted in the United States, but in Europe, wizarding official organizations in any country will regard them as inferior.

Barna might not have been so surprised if Dumbledore had made such a claim, but Amosta Bryan's first claim to fame was when he took out the infamous werewolf leader Greyback and his gang.

Goblins and werewolves are also outliers in the eyes of wizards, but the shrewdness of goblins has allowed them to find a place in the wizarding world, compared to the fact that werewolves are in a much worse situation and suffer more ostracism.

Since Amosta Bryan is not shy about telling others that he has a werewolf friend, this makes the old goblin feel confident that he and Amosta Bryan are true friends.

"Mr. Bryan's friend is a friend of the goblin—"

The smile on Mr. Barna's face was finally much more sincere,

"I'll put Kingo in charge of this, and I'm sure it will be nice to get along with this Mr. Remus Lupin."

The discrimination between goblins and wizards is mutual, since wizards don't look down on werewolves, then, naturally, goblins can't think werewolves are such noble creatures, but Jingo, who took over this errand, did not dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction, and it respectfully bent towards Mr. Barna and Mr. Brian, indicating that he would do his best.

The outcome of this meeting was undoubtedly pleasant for both parties. Since the meeting, the solemn and nervous atmosphere that has been hidden in the office was relieved at the moment of reaching a consensus, and the two of them finally began to taste the delicious food on the table.

"Ah, yes--"

Taking advantage of the gap between Jin Ge adding water to the teacup, Amosta suddenly asked coldly,

"A few years ago... I just graduated from Hogwarts, following the ancient tradition of wizards, and when I traveled through various magical civilizations, I heard people mention that for some wizards who died accidentally and had no successors, Gringotts would hand over the wealth in the treasury to the Ministry of Magic, right? ”

The old elf's fingers pinching the food trembled uncontrollably, and some of the food scraps fell on the valuable velvet tablecloth.

"It's wizard's law, Mr. Blaine—"

The old goblin nodded,

"It's a rule agreed upon by goblins and wizards, and it's strictly followed by Gringotts' branches everywhere."

"But I've heard that there are other ways to deal with it?"

Amosta smiled nondeniably.

Not to mention Gelson Barna, even Jin Ge and Radi, who have been serving the two of them, sensed what Amosta meant. In fact, this is not a particularly secret thing, and among the elves, they are in high command and know very well what the guys in the branch will do.

They would collude with the employees of the Ministry of Magic to take the wealth of the lost heirs in the vault, such as valuable antiques or magic books, stocks, title deeds, etc., to the local black market and sell them, and the returned funds would be laundered in different ways and then divided among the gold originally stored in the vault.

This is a very large chain of interests, involving many middle and high-level people in various ministries of magic and Gringotts branches.

At this time, Amosta Blaine talked about this in this way of small talk, certainly not to join this chain of interests, because it was too unseemly for a wizard like him.

"I don't deny it, Mr. Blaine--"

Mr. Barna said in the same casual tone,

"In the case of what you said, there may be some cases of violations."

"It's disappointing—"

Amosta smacked his lips with a regretful expression,

"If those guys at the Ministry of Magic can use their gold-digging energy to deal with their work, they won't be criticized by the people all day long for not being able to do anything-"

The conversation about the matter was taken over, and the rest of the breakfast was devoted to pleasant conversations.

Amosta disappeared into the brilliant firelight, and the two goblins, Jin Ge and Radi, were still surprised by Fawkes, but the old goblin was gloomy at the moment when Amosta's figure was scattered,

"I need you to get to the branch in England at once, and as soon as possible, investigate the list of goblins and Ministry of Magic employees involved in the last thing Brian said, and the amount of wealth they embezzled, and send one copy to Amosta Brian."

After being stunned, Jin Ge, who came to obey the order, couldn't help but hesitate and asked,

"You think about the British Ministry of Magic, we will offend a lot of people, Mr. Barna"

"Amosta Bryan takes this very seriously--"

Mr. Barna said with a calm face,

"Perhaps, that's the real purpose of his visit."

(End of chapter)